I visited an old school friend in North Wales over the weekend and we popped into Cob Records in Porthmadog. I thoroughly enjoyed flicking through the vinyl racks, coming across those unexpected gems. Not something I’ve done for over eighteen months and what a total pleasure it was.
Managed to pick up a nice little haul of 70s and 80s time warp first / early pressings, but the real gem is the first pressing of For Your Pleasure which is M/M and sounds tremendous, a real find!
Aerosmith - Permanent Vacation.
Roxy Music - For Your Pleasure.
Wham - Fantastic.
Chris Rea - Dancing With Strangers.
Simon & Garfunkel - Bridge Over Troubled Waters.
The Beatles - Ballads.
John Martyn -The Church with One Bell. So happy to have this on vinyl finally. Luckily Craft have done it very nicely and it sounds fab. My only gripe is that there’s a picture inner but no anti static inner and as usual the LP was seemingly welded to the paper of the picture inner. Still it doesn’t totally mar what is otherwise a wonderful release.
20 highlights from the Queen of Soul’s 4CD set including previously unreleased tracks “Call Me” – Alternate Version, “Until You Come Back To Me” – Work Tape, “You Light Up My Life”, and “(You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural Woman” – Live, which was originally broadcast on The 38th Annual Kennedy Center Honors on 12/19/15.
Side One
“Never Grow Old”
“Today I Sing The Blues”
“One Step Ahead”
“I Never Loved A Man (The Way I Love You)”
“A Change Is Gonna Come”
Side Two
“Respect”
“Chain Of Fools” – Alternate Version
“Call Me” – Alternate Version *
“Rock Steady” – Alternate Mix/Take
“How I Got Over” (Single Edit) – Live
Side Three
“Master Of Eyes (The Deepness Of Your Eyes)”
“Until You Come Back To Me” – Work Tape *
“Something He Can Feel”
“You Light Up My Life” *
“Think”
Side Four
“Freeway Of Love”
“I Knew You Were Waiting (For Me) – Aretha Franklin and George Michael
“Someday We’ll All Be Free”
“A Rose Is Still A Rose”
“(You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural Woman” – Live*
(Originally Broadcast On The 38th Annual Kennedy Center Honors 12/19/15)
One of the higlights of RSD 2021 - the five-LP War box set, compriding the first five post-Burdon LPs: War, The World Is A Ghetto, All Day Music, Deliver The Word and Why Can’t We Be Friends?
Just received this week, now is on the platter after a good washing.
It does sound great as you say but it’s not a flawless pressing, nothing serious that would suggest to return It.
Nice album, sounds warm and “physical”, thank you to bring it to our attention
Thanks @mojo_65 I already have both CD’s which I have ripped to a hard drive but am a record collector and the chance to own these two records reissued by the legendary King Records from Japan parent of Paddle Wheel is something special.
Hi Kevster,
Looks a nice set, but as ever I’m hesitant about coloured vinyl, would you kindly report back on the pressings when you’ve had time?
I was amused watching the whole video how all the different records came out the sleeves without resistance, so many I get these days come almost welded in that sometimes surgery is required
Cheers
CD is made for that… 
